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-title = "Mobile Police Patlabor: The Early Days (1989)"
-author = ["Michał Sapka"]
-date = 2024-05-06T22:38:00+02:00
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-weight = 10
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-abstract = "My review of the OAV"
-rating = 3.75
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-_Mobile Police Patlabor_ is a 7 episodes long OAV series which serves as an introduction to the more widely known movies.
-The subtitle (_The Early Days_) says it all, as it depicts the humble beginnings of Special Vehicles Unit 2 (SV2), which we will follow in the later installments.
-Think: the first few episodes of _The Wire_.
-We see how they are preparing their base of operation, how they receive their Labors, and so on.
-And that's pretty much all that's here.
-No grand ideas (like in _Movie Two_), not even an attempt at those.
-All we see is how the Unit starts and their first few cases.
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-It's only this, but it never sets up itself to be anything more.
-Not everything needs to be full of difficult questions and even harder answers.
-_Early Days_ on its own is cool if you're deeply into Mecha, but I am not.
-For me, this OAV is _only_ an addition to the Movies.
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-But it changed how I look at the first movie.
-I was not sure what it actually was all about.
-Was it pro-technology?
-Was it a warning?
-Well, the opening here is a love song sung by one of the pilots towards her Patlabor (named Alfons).
-Yep, it seems Patlabor was techno-fetishist all along.
-Nothing here prepares us for _Movie 2_, but it makes the first movie better.
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-The seven episodes here are, in order:
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--   the start of SV2, and we get to know Noa (who is one of the main characters in _Movie 1_),
--   mission to protect the mayor,
--   underwater monster story (sic!),
--   hostage situation,
--   ghost story (sic! again) while the unit is on vacation (with mandatory hot spring scenes),
--   the plot of second movie, but without the smart parts,
--   a long chase scene.
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-It's all light-hearted and more often than not a bit goofy.
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-Technically, this is a very pretty anime,
-The movies follow the style we see here, with bigger budgets though.
-But what we see here is a great, old-school animation.
-OAVs tend to look better than TV series, and this one is no exception.
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-My gripes with the OAV  are more with my expectations than with the _Early Days_ themselves.
-It fulfills its aspiration to be a nice, short series.
-Nothing here even points towards bigger ambitions.
-But I saw it after _Palabor 2: Movie_ which was intelligent up to a fault.
-And even though I deeply enjoyed every minute, it's not what I came for.
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-So, if you liked _Movie 1_ and want more - sure, this series gets my thumbs up (and therefore rating).
-But if the _Movie 2_ floored you but left hungry, don't expect this series to come anywhere that level of ambition nor quality.
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-{{< img-c "patlabor-early-days-1.jpg" "https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0160423/mediaviewer/rm3156868353/" >}}
-We've got regular mecha fights!
-{{< /img-c >}}